Product Description: From the INTRODUCTION. ALL my life I have been interested in art and in geography. My studies in both fields remained as separate pursuits until about the year 1890, when I began to make a small collection of Japanese pictures. At about that time also I paid several visits to the Musée de Saint Germain and studied the French prehistoric remains...read more

Product Description: From the Introduction. The fundamental idea underlying this monograph is to make an examination and comparison of the fine arts of as many races as possible, and of the resemblances and differences between these arts, to see whether any new light can thereby be shed on man and his history...read more

Product Description: Dr. Samuel Mudd's great professional misadventure began at 4 o'clock in the morning on April 15, 1865. when he came downstairs in his night shirt to admit two men, Tyler and Tyson, the former of whom had an injured leg which he said was caused by his horse having fallen upon it...read more

Product Description: From the INTRODUCTION. The text of the following reprint of Ben Jonson's The Case is Altered is based upon that of the Gifford-Cunningham edition, carefully revised, however, after a transcript (made by Mr. S. A, Chevalier) of the copy of the original edition of 1609 now in the Barton collection in the Boston Public Library...read more

Product Description: "Professor Mayer has invented a series of experiments in Light which are described by Mr. Barnard. Nothing is more necessary for sound-teaching than experiments made by the pupil, and this book, by considering the difficulty of costly apparatus, has rendered an important service to teacher and student alike...read more

Product Description: Un extracto del principio ... Diego García encuentra en San Vicente á cierto bachiller portugués y unos yernos suyos. — ¿Desde cuándo vivían allir — Cronología de los primeros viajes de los portugueses en América (nota)...read more

Product Description: From the Preface. THE times of fairies and such like people now are over. Fairies, and giants, and dwarfs have fled to the stars — at least so they say—and have carried with them all the invisible coats, and magic swords, and flying ships that were upon earth,' for these things belonged to them alone...read more

Product Description: Readers, did you know that couples engaging in sexual intercourse were erotica images Rembrandt made during his lifetime? Although it represented but a very small portion of his total output, he intended to sell them but failed to do so because the public wasn't ready for the risqué subject matter...read more